ANALYSIS OF SOUNDTRACK

Shutter Island

The Sixth Sense

SHUTTER ISLAND

The soundtrack is in a minor key, and crescendos slowly to a climax because

the raising of the volume in the track represents the raising of the tension built

up by the soundtrack. Also, people associate the low sound of violins with

spookiness. Also all the sound is non-diegetic and there is no accompanying

video so all it is, is the opening soundtrack and credits. I feel that the

compliments but also contrasts the genre of the film because psychological

thriller films are often very creepy and the music builds the suspense to create

this, however, the music is also just one note and therefore very simple

whereas the film genre often has very complex and complicated story lines. I

feel that the soundtrack is parallel to the clip because the screen is blank just

like how the soundtrack is very blank.

THE SIXTH SENSE

With the sixth sense, it also crescendos the same way as Shutter Island

does but there is a rhythm to the music because it lasts much longer. The

instruments used are violins and pianos because they create the very high

pitched creepy sound which is very slow. Also there is a sudden jump in

the music before it becomes much more flowing because more

instruments come in. I feel the jump is used for the effect of scaring the

audience because of how loud it is. The music is very contrapuntal

because of how it is quite fast and changing compared to the opening

credits which are present on the screen. I feel that the sound represents

the genre because of how complex the tune/beat of it is.